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adding, vbl. n.|ˈædɪŋ|
[f. add v. + -ing1.]
a. The act or process of putting or joining one thing to another, or of combining several quantities into one; addition. (Now mostly gerundial.)
c1391Chaucer Astrol. (1872) 52 Thries 20 feet ys the heyght of the Tour, with addyng of thyn owne persone to thyn eye. 1536Pilgr. T. 226 in Thynne's Animadv. 83 It is expresse agaynst godis beading that we to his ruell shold mak any adyng. 1611Cotgr., Adjoustement, An adding, putting, or setting unto. 1860Tyndall Glaciers ii. §1, 230 By adding sound to sound, silence may be produced.
b. attrib.: adding-machine, an instrument for the mechanical adding up of numbers.
1874in Knight Dict. Mech. 1911H. S. Harrison Queed viii. 102 He was as definite as an adding machine, as practical as a cash register. 1929Times (weekly ed.) 7 Feb. 147/4 Clerks recording quickly on adding machines. |